Hi,
Many of my ideas turn out to be really stupid, and I need to throw
away my feature branch. So, I find myself doing this often:
# on branch menuconfig-jk
$ git checkout master
$ git branch -D
# er, what was the branch name again?
$ git checkout -
# Ah
$ git checkout master
$ g
Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra writes:
>
>> # er, what was the branch name again?
>> $ git checkout -
>
> You could take a look in the reflog.
Yeah, or use the @{-N} revision to do that for me. My scripted
version is essentially:
test "true" = "$(git rev-parse --is-inside-wo
Ramkumar Ramachandra writes:
> # er, what was the branch name again?
> $ git checkout -
You could take a look in the reflog.
Andreas.
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Ramkumar Ramachandra writes:
> Many of my ideas turn out to be really stupid, and I need to throw
> away my feature branch. So, I find myself doing this often:
>
> # on branch menuconfig-jk
> $ git checkout master
> $ git branch -D
> # er, what was the branch name again?
> $ git checko
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Did you know that the general way to spell the branch previously you
> were on is "@{-1}" and "checkout -" is an ugly special case that is
> possible only because "checkout" does not happen to take a "-" as a
> valid argument that means something else (like the more usual "r
Junio C Hamano, Fri 2013-07-19 @ 09:48:06-0700:
> But there is a very commonly accepted long tradition for "-" to mean
> "read from the standard input", so we cannot reuse it to mean "the
> branch I was previously on" for every command without first making
> sure the command will never want to use
Ramkumar Ramachandra writes:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Did you know that the general way to spell the branch previously you
>> were on is "@{-1}" and "checkout -" is an ugly special case that is
>> possible only because "checkout" does not happen to take a "-" as a
>> valid argument that means s
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> That limits the context we could use "-" and we cannot consistently
> use it everywhere. I find _that_ ugly from the "design cleanliness"
> point of view.
Right, noted.
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Taylor Hedberg writes:
> Junio C Hamano, Fri 2013-07-19 @ 09:48:06-0700:
>> But there is a very commonly accepted long tradition for "-" to mean
>> "read from the standard input", so we cannot reuse it to mean "the
>> branch I was previously on" for every command without first making
>> sure the
Junio C Hamano writes:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Did you know that the general way to spell the branch previously you
>>> were on is "@{-1}" and "checkout -" is an ugly special case that is
>>> possible only because "checkout" does not happen to take a "-" as
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